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President Roosevelt has just heard of Samuel Strasbourger’s canvass, and compliments his work. Although he does not want to be quoted yet, Roosevelt believes the only wise course regarding nominations is to follow the people’s sentiment, as shown in canvasses such as Strasbourger’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-20
Detective Pinkerton updates Governor Gooding on Agent 21’s investigation into the assassination of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. He was called to Boise to receive his assignment. When he arrived in Boise, he was assigned to poll the entire county and could hire additional men to get the job done.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-01
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks J. N. Crowell for sending a copy of the poll that Crowell is going to publish in Farm & Fireside.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-27
Theodore Roosevelt found the presidential poll sent by Senator Bristow to be interesting and puzzling. Roosevelt would like to lunch with Bristow when Bristow returns to New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05
Senator Bristow encloses a Kansas presidential poll taken by Arthur Capper. President Taft faired poorly in the poll and Eugene V. Debs was within 300 votes of Taft as first choice for president.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-02
Edgar Chambless plans to send copies of his book Roadtown to former members of Commission on Country Life in an effort to solicit their opinions on it, and asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to write a short message in support of this. While he heard that Roosevelt considers the ideas presented in the work currently impractical, they have been of interest to a number of other prominent people, which Chambless hopes will convince Roosevelt to assist in this way. He particularly references Luther Burbank as “not the type of man who jumps at conclusions or lends his name to impractical schemes.” By providing a message in support of Chambless’s investigations, Roosevelt will help make the ideas a reality.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-21
E. Mont Reily recently conducted a pair of polls in prominent office buildings, and reports that Theodore Roosevelt has the greatest share of support among Republicans, and that many Republicans declared they will not vote for President William H. Taft if he is renominated.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-04
Per their conversation, Edward E. Higgins sends President Roosevelt a detailed schedule of the votes by states that were made by Life subscribers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-28
The results of the presidential poll conducted by the Topeka Capital.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-25
A scarecrow–“straw vote”–casts a vote “for Taft.” President Roosevelt and William H. Taft look on as there are “reports” on the table in front of them. Caption: T. R.–“We win.”
A first look at W. A. Rogers’s political cartoon in the New York Herald would suggest to the reader that President Roosevelt and his chosen successor William H. Taft were engaged in something nefarious as “straw votes” are tallied in the presidential election three weeks hence. They appear to be scheming, evilly smiling, rubbing their hands.
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Thomas W. Taylor for his letter and is gratified by the results of the poll taken by The Evening Telegraph in Philadelphia and the leading cities of Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-08
Puck as Diogenes carries a lantern and a lithographic pen and seeks the perfect mayor for New York City. At center Puck gets the opinion of “The Republican Machine” (Thomas Collier Platt with the tail and ears of a fox) and “Tammany” Hall (Richard Croker with the tail and ears of the Tammany Tiger). In the surrounding vignettes, he hears the opinions of “The Sunday Closers” who respect the Sabbath, “The Reformers” who seek “a man of the highest ideals … and irreproachable character!” and have “Seth Low” at the top of their list, as well as “The Germans” and “The Bicyclers,” before returning to the “Office of Puck,” somewhat dismayed. Caption: Diogenes Puck starts out to find him, and gets a lot of varied information on the subject.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-04
Governor Hadley encloses a memorandum with Missouri polling results provided by Colonel Nelson. He believes that this information will display whether there is a demand in Missouri for Theodore Roosevelt to be a presidential candidate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-02-02